2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. Milton. Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. — Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.
WOADED
Woad"ed, a.
Defn: Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.
WOAD-WAXEN
Woad"-wax`en, n. Etym: [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.)
Defn: A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; — called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- waxen.
WOALD
Woald, n.
Defn: See Weld.
WOBBLE
Wob"ble, v. i.
Defn: See Wabble.
WODE
Wode, a. Etym: [AS. wod.]